http://www.stephenking.com/community/ en Wed, 22 May 2013 15:37:13 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.stephenking.com/community/images/misc/rss.png http://www.stephenking.com/community/ http://www.stephenking.com/community/showthread.php/29210-No-digital-edition-completely-misses-the-point?goto=newpost Tue, 21 May 2013 18:10:03 GMT "Stephen King says his next book, Joyland, . He recently told The Wall Street Journal: '[L]et people stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one.' Interestingly, King was actually one of the first mainstream authors to go digital: Back in 2000, Riding the Bullet was released as the first mass market ebook. A from that year discussing the quaintly described 'Internet-only novella' quotes one prominent literary agent as saying, 'That's a fellow sitting up in Maine having fun, but it's not a way to run a business.'"

I'm going to try not to sound like a righteous a-hole but this makes me so sad. He says his goal is to get people to go to bookstores and yet this sort of passive aggressive statement completely misses the mark. It's not about supporting bookstores it's about consuming media in the form you choose and personally, I will not bother to read a book unless it's on Kindle. I don't consciously mean to do that, i just never get around to it. Case in point? The 2004 Bill Simmons book about the Red Sox World Series. I have both editions (the second was updated in '07) and I still haven't cracked them open. And I'm from Boston. As a matter of fact, I've probably read at least 15 books on my Kindle since I purchased those books a few months back (I've been waiting for them to appear on Kindle for years, finally the publisher let me know that they only have very old files and not enough demand and blah blah blah--it's probably costing them more in returns and warehousing). Yet I decided I wanted to learn more about wine and immediately went to Elliot Bay and dropped $75 on wine books because that's the format I prefer for those. I support Elliot Bay constantly by attending author events, buying hardcover books from them EVEN when I have the Kindle edition (case in point: ALL of Stephen King's books) but when I want to read a book for pleasure, I prefer to read on my Kindle. That's my choice. Equally, there are just as many people who prefer reading a physical book and won't buy ebooks. I don't see King shouting out to the masses that they need to support the digital e-reading industry. What makes me nuts is he's one of the pioneers of electronic reading and I feel like he gets it, he did that great story with the pink Kindle, about that Kindle gone bad, UR. But this just seems like a passive aggressive statement that had absolutely no bearing on his goal at all. Because of this, I'm not going to bother buying his book until the digital edition comes out, which may never happen. Normally, I'd have preordered both the hardcover and the Kindle edition. You lost me on this one, SK. Severely disappointed and constant supporter of local book stores AND 5-year employee of Amazon.com, Stephanie DiSantis (also chick who met Stephen King at a Rock Bottom Remainders concert at BEA one year and was so idol-struck all she could mutter was "I just love you." Twice. Sigh.) ]]> Joyland southiechics http://www.stephenking.com/community/showthread.php/29210-No-digital-edition-completely-misses-the-point http://www.stephenking.com/community/showthread.php/29128-Signed-copies-available?goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 14:09:19 GMT http://titanbooks.com/blog/limited-editions-now-available/ http://titanbooks.com/blog/limited-e...now-available/ ]]> Joyland RichardX http://www.stephenking.com/community/showthread.php/29128-Signed-copies-available